Class 11 English - Hornbill - Chapter The Ailing Planet: the Green Movement's Role NCERT Solutions | How are the earth’s principal biol

Why does the author aver that the growth of world population is one of the strongest factors distorting the future of human society?

What does the notice ‘The world’s most dangerous animal’ at a cage in the zoo at Lusaka, Zambia, signify?

Locate the lines in the text that support the title ‘The Ailing Planet’.

Give reasons for the following.
(i) King Tut’s body has been subjected to repeated scrutiny.
(ii) Howard Carter’s investigation was resented.
(iii) Carter had to chisel away the solidified resins to raise the king’s remains.
(iv) Tut’s body was buried along with gilded treasures.
(v) The boy king changed his name from Tutankhaten to Tutankhamun.

The three phases of the author’s relationship with his grandmother before he left the country to study abroad.

(i) Contrast the Chinese view of art with the European view with examples.
(ii) Explain the concept of shanshui.

Comment on the attitude shown by Taplow towards Crocker-Harris.

List the steps taken by the captain
(i) to protect the ship when rough weather began.
(ii) to check the flooding of the water in the ship.

(i) List the deeds that led Ray Johnson to describe Akhenaten as “wacky”.
(ii) What were the results of the CT scan?
(iii) List the advances in technology that have improved forensic analysis.
(iv) Explain the statement, “King Tut is one of the first mummies to be scanned — in death, as in life...”

Three reasons why the author’s grandmother was disturbed when he started going to the city school.

(i) What do you understand by the terms ‘outsider art’ and ‘art brut’ or ‘raw art’?
(ii) Who was the “untutored genius who created a paradise” and what is the nature of his contribution to art?

Does Frank seem to encourage Taplow’s comments on Crocker-Harris?

Describe the mental condition of the voyagers on 4 and 5 January.

“The landscape is an inner one, a spiritual and conceptual space.”

We have come across words like ‘gale’ and ‘storm’ in the account. Here are two more words for ‘storm’: typhoon, cyclone. How many words does your language have for ‘storm’?

Have you heard any boatmen’s songs? What kind of emotions do these songs usually express?

List the steps taken by the captain
(i) to protect the ship when rough weather began.
(ii) to check the flooding of the water in the ship.

Which language do you think the author and his grandmother used while talking to each other?

Here are the terms for different kinds of vessels: yacht, boat, canoe, ship, steamer, schooner. Think of similar terms in your language.

How does the story suggest that optimism helps to endure “the direst stress”?

Can you think of a song or a poem in your language that talks of homecoming?

Discuss the following in groups of two pairs, each pair in a group taking opposite points of view.
1. Scientific intervention is necessary to unearth buried mysteries.
2. Advanced technology gives us conclusive evidence of past events.
3. Traditions, rituals and funerary practices must be respected.
4. Knowledge about the past is useful to complete our knowledge of the world we live in.

Three ways in which the author’s grandmother spent her days after he grew up.